Act 2008 crashing

Boy, my Act 2008 is crashing constantly, starting a couple of weeks ago. Anyone having this problem? I'm assuming Sage isn't keeping up with Windows XP upgrades, as this is the only thing changing on my PC. Any suggestions?

Re: Act 2008 crashing

Roy Laudenslage provided two suggestions that really did the trick. Expanding my laptop's Virtual Memory from 1524 - 3048 to 4092 - 4092 helped some. Excluding Act from AVG's autoscan seems to have helped a great deal. I did this by going to AVG's resident shield and listing two files as exceptions: my documents/Act and application data/Act. Both files were under the documents and settings folder tree.

Re: Act 2008 crashing

Can you test the same lookups within the demo or new database. If you do not experience the freeze/crashes within a different database, proceed with running database maintenance from Tools > Database Maintenance > Check and Repair.

Re: Act 2008 crashing

I ran the database maintenance/check and repair. I also checked for duplicates. Afterwards I've had the problem once. Could the size of my database or number of contacts crossed Act 2008's capacity, perhaps overwhelming database lookups? Also, could my also having 1-2 browsers, Outlook Express and an Office application open have a negative impact? It hasn't in the past.

Re: Act 2008 crashing

Roy Laudenslage provided two suggestions that really did the trick. Expanding my laptop's Virtual Memory from 1524 - 3048 to 4092 - 4092 helped some. Excluding Act from AVG's autoscan seems to have helped a great deal. I did this by going to AVG's resident shield and listing two files as exceptions: my documents/Act and application data/Act. Both files were under the documents and settings folder tree.